The Rancho Santa Fe Rotary Club will hold its third annual Taste of Rancho Santa Fe, a food & wine festival and auction, from 4-7 p.m. Oct. 11 on the lawns of The Inn at Rancho Santa Fe.

Twenty local restaurants will showcase their award- winning chefs alongside more than 20 wineries from Napa Valley and local regions. Guests will have the opportunity to taste bites from the renowned chefs of Mille Fleurs, Rancho Valencia’s Veladora, RSF Bistro, The Bridges, The Inn at Rancho Santa Fe and Dolce Pane E Vino, just to name a few.

Taste of RSF’s 2015 Sommelier, wine educator and event planner James King will offer 22 one-of-a-kind tastings. Some of the Napa wineries featured are: 2 Plank, Aloft, Cairdean, Manzoni and Oakville Ranch. Guests will also enjoy amazing grapes from the local region like Coomber Wines, Climbing Moneys, Navarro and many more.

The event will also feature live entertainment, a raffle, and a live and silent auction.

Tickets for the event are $75 and $100 after Oct. 1 and can be purchased at www.tasteofrsf.org. For information, contact “Taste of Rancho Santa Fe” maitre d’ Uschi Crouch at uschi.crouch@gmail.com.

Among auction items: five-night stay for eight in a luxurious 4,200-square-foot Montana log cabin; $1,700 treatment by La Jolla Laser Clinic; High Bluff Academy SAT/ACT courses, tutoring or summer courses of your choice; or Sugar Ray Leonard autographed boxing gloves and signed picture by J.C. Cooley Foundation. Also, “Ultimate Padres Game” with catered limo ride and four Padres tickets; “Set Sail in San Diego” on the international yacht race winner the Staghound; or, how about a “Private Night in the Museum” with an event rental of the entire San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum after hours.

All net proceeds from the event will be shared by 12 beneficiaries: San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum, Women’s Empowerment International, ConnectMed International, Hands United for Children, Miracle Babies, The Vision for Children Foundation, Voices for Children, STEP Support The Enlisted Project, JC Cooley Foundation, RSF Community Center, and RSF Rotary Club.

Why go home after the event? The Inn at Rancho Santa Fe is offering a special from Sunday-Monday (Oct. 11-12) for just $188. For reservations, call 858-756-1131 and mention “Taste of RSF.”

The Village Church in Rancho Santa Fe is asking the community to come together on Saturday, June 13, to drop off food, cleaning goods, and children’s books and art supplies to help hundreds of San Diegans in need.

Country Squire Gifts and Linens in the RSF Village reopened Saturday, May 23 and plans to donate 10% of any purchase through June 30 to the San Diego Food Bank to help those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Teen Volunteers in Action — San Diego Chapter 3 senior class members are congratulated for their outstanding volunteer work, leadership development and contributions to the community by other chapter members, family and friends.

The foster graduates of Class of 2020 of San Pasqual Academy are very grateful for the wonderful efforts of Teen Volunteers In Action, which is a volunteer organization of mothers and sons giving back to the community.